Bangladesh: Police arrest leader of banned terror outfit HuJi who had met Osama Bin Laden
Dhaka: Bangladesh Police have arrested a leader of the banned militant outfit Harkat-ul Jihad al-Islami Bangladesh or HuJI-B, media reports said.
He has been identified as Md Atiqullah alias Asadullah aka Zulfikar.
Md Atiqullah alias Asadullah aka Zulfikar, 49, who had once met slain Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden, recently returned to Bangladesh in order to rejuvenate HuJi-B, according to the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit of police, reported bdnews24.
Apart from Md Atiqullah, police have arrested two others.
They were identified as Md Borhan Uddin Rabbani, 42, and Mohammad Nazim Uddin alias Shameem, 43.
They were apprehended from a field adjoining a mosque in Khilket’s Nikunja-2 Residential Area on Wednesday afternoon, Touheedul Islam, assistant superintendent of anti-terror police, told the news portal.
A case has been started against the arrested people in Khilket Police Station under the Anti-Terrorism Act.
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